The condition of modernity springs from that tension between
science and the humanities that had its roots in the Enlightenment
but reached its full flowering with the rise of twentieth-century
technology. It manifests itself most notably in the crisis of
individuality that is generated by the nexus of science,
literature, and politics, one that challenges each of us to find a
way of balancing our personal identities between our public and
private selves in an otherwise estranging world. This challenge,
which can only be expressed as "the struggle of modernity," perhaps
finds no better expression than in C. P. Snow. In his career as
novelist, scientist, and civil servant, C. P. Snow (1905-1980)
attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the
humanities.
While Snow is often regarded as a late-Victorian liberal who has
little to say about the modernist period in which he lived and
wrote, de la Mothe challenges this judgment, reassessing Snow's
place in twentieth-century thought. He argues that Snow's life and
writings--most notably his Strangers and Brothers sequence of
novels and his provocative thesis in The Two Cultures and the
Scientific Revolution--reflect a persistent struggle with the
nature of modernity. They manifest Snow's belief that science and
technology were at the center of modern life.
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